We are (home) learners!

Autahi homes are hives of activity.

It has been such an inspiration to see and hear about what everyone has been doing at home this week. Thank you for sharing! Here's a little snapshot of our community of learners.

Starting the day with some exercise is a great first step, and even more fun when shared with others.

  Brothers can be great teachers.

Time for some maths. You've been practising writing numbers ...

... and making some awesome creations. How many groups of three can you see in this tower?

How many Lego pieces in these cool patterns?

Now for some writing. This week, we've been learning about the letter W. How many things starting with w can you find around your house? 

You've been writing wonderful wiggly worm stories.

Finally, you've been such great helpers to your families - and helping out is fun, too, right?

Do keep posting your photos on Seesaw and sharing your ideas so that we can all learn from each other.

100 Days at school!

In Autahi we have a calendar. Each week we learn about the days and months, and we have been counting the days since school started this year. On Monday we reached 100! To celebrate this we had a 100 day in Autahi.

We wrote some stories about what we could do with 100 things...

                                              

We also made some towers with connecting blocks to see how far they would stretch!

       

We divided our 100's into groups of tens.

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100 is such a big number, I wonder what number we will get to by the end of the year?!

Integrated Curriculum with Teddy Bears

When we talk about having an integrated curriculum we are talking about pulling lots of different strands of the curriculum together under a unified concept.

A great example of that is this weeks Teddy Bear's picnic theme. We are able to pull our reading, writing, maths, arts and others together under the same umbrella. This way we are constantly making connections with all of the learning that is happening around the classroom. We are able to provide a range of provocations and activities that flow seamlessly from one subject area to the next.

Here are some examples of what we have going on around the class this week.

Measuring our toys to graph them from biggest to smallest

Responding to the text Brown bear by writing what our Teddy can see

Using different materials to create new Teddies

The Teddies are a great theme for all of our learning and we have been really engaged in lots of learning and play.

Up, up and away!

Up, up and away!  Our exploration of position and direction has continued! Last week we read a story about two mice who travel out of their hole, up the leg of a table, onto a cup to sneak some food.  They then make their way back down and into their hole.  We decided to make our own little mouse houses, ramps and obstacle courses with our own mice.  We created and showed how they worked, describing where the mouse went!

      

We then wrote our own stories about these houses thinking 

about using the language we have been talking about.

Building on from our position and direction language we began making maps! 

Here are some of the maps we have made of our own rooms.  We had to think hard and make sure things were placed in the right spots and were the right size when compared with other objects in our room! This took some mathematical and spatial thinking. 

We've also started making a map of our room talking about where things sit in relation to each other.  Here's how it's looking so far.  We had to do a lot of thinking about where things fit, what size, shape and colour they are and then we began to draw, cut and paste making sure we could fit everything in!

We have also been reading the story Scattercat by Lynley Dodd and talking about where cheeky Hairy Mclairy is in relation to the cats he chases in the book.  

To practise our direction and position language we have been playing a game called "Where is Hairy?" where one buddy hides a picture of Hairy Mclairy and then has to give directions to their buddy to find him.  This has been lots of fun and we have had to be very specific with our direction giving!  Keep an eye out to see more about this game!